Consistency and humility

I had a wonderful time im Camerons last weekend with our worship team. There was so much food. So much laughter, too little sleep and so much of His Grace.

We were filled with the Holy Spirit for the entire weekend and cried buckets during worship, prayers. It was an awesome time.

There were a lot of things that happened over the weekend that left a deep impact on me. It has, in many ways, changed my life. I also receive a prophecy, from 3 brothers who prayed for me seperately but consecutively, talking about the same thing. That will be another entry altogether.

Above all else that I learn from camerons, Ive been inspired and humbled and awed by brothers & sisters who have served MWM faithfully. I feel that I'm so far behind them, and feel great privilledge to be able to serve beside them so that I may be able to learn from them.

The 2 very impressive traits that stood out from them was :-

1) consistency
2) humility

(I wouldn't have swore that I could have figure that out a logn time ago... but... )

It hit me really hard when i observe that it was consistency that earned respect and gives confidence to the ppl around us. That's leadership. And a humble attitude that allow us to go far in life (in many aspect).

For the first time, I saw it differently. The effort put in to do the small things, consistently over the years speaks GREAT volume. So much volume it nearly knocked me over unconscious! My brother Ricky Liew sets the standard for consistency (he is a super meloncholy). He is always early, always prepare, keeps himself neat and tidy be it 5am or 11pm, print out immaculate score sheets...etc And Janan, whenever I missed a sermon, I'd look for his email detailing an accurate summary - all typed before work starts.

I'm amazed at all these ppl. (I only mentioned 2 here because it would take a book to write them all down). Consistency like that really translate to 'dependability'. I would be comfortable knowing that such responsible individual is my leader.

Reflecting on myself, I'm embrassed to say that consistency is almost, (almost!!!), non-existent in my life. Perhaps the only consistent thing I do is being inconsistent.

As for humility, James See says it like this when we complimented his leadership style (esp on his approachability and 'realness'), ".... truly, I don't feel that I'm coming down to your level to talk to you when I'm leading you in this team. I feel honoured that I'm leading you. Really, I feel that I'm looking up to you all when I'm talking to you because I'm so far behind you in so many things....."

ppl i meet

It's been about 5 years since I've been attending my current church.

I'm still being surprised by the people I meet there. Extraordinary people who shocks me out from my chair. You never know who you're talking to in church really.

There's this guy, who often comes very early to help arrange chairs. Pick up rubbish... etc. In fact, I don't remember a time when i don't see him. Mind you,my church is about 2000++ in size. So there's a lot of chairs to be moved and he is not young either. He is usually jovial, and full of candor. I nearly fell off my chair when i saw that he is a president of a large organisation here.

There's this dude, who is always helping out with the traffic. We have a lot of cars moving in and out. Being a tropical country and all, hot sun and humid weather really add on to the discomfort. But he is always with a smile. Rain or shine. Joy of the Lord must be.

(don't have much time now.. so i have to cut short)

There are some really successful man who when I talk to them remains so humble, that literally puts me to shame at my own boast.

Like I said, I never know who I'm talknig to in church. Praise God for these men and women who really earns my utmost respect with such humility.

love hate relationship with Teh-o-ice-Limau

I found out quite recently that if i drink tea at night I would be awake for most of the night... and I foolishly drank the strong cup of Teh o ice limau last night. Somemore the one i had last night was quite 'kau' i think.. because it's 1127am now that I haven't been able to sleep.

This is one of the worst feeling ever, tired but can't sleep. It wrecks my whole system and timing. I wanna work but I'm like 3x slower. I wanna sleep but I kinda just lay there. It's horrble. No wonder soldiers goes crazy when tortured without sleep for days.

When life hands you a lemon, try to make lemonade

the most important thing in life is not to capitalise in gains. any fool can do that. the really important thing is to profit from your losses. that requires intelligence and it makes the difference between the man of sense and a fool.